Category Archives: News

Especially around the holidays, I receive requests for signed books. I always feel a bit sad to tell readers that I am not able to either sell and ship to them an autographed book, nor can I allow them to mail be a book to me for me to sign and return to them. We have… Continue Reading

Hello there! This is Chase, an assistant here at the Hobb offices, I come with news of an upcoming con! We will be arriving in Pensacola, Florida for Pensacon on February 17-19th. We will be hanging out around the WordFire press booth with Kevin J. Anderson and others, as well as wandering around and fulfilling our curiosities.… Continue Reading

In my opinion. Some. Sometimes. Often. It seems to me. Those are just a few words and phrases that I intend to deploy more often in social media posts in 2017. I am doing this in the interest of world peace. It seems to me that recently I’ve been reading more and more absolute statements on… Continue Reading

Boxing Day. In the UK and Australia, the day after Christmas is often called Boxing Day. I’ve known this since I was a kid, but never really wondered what the origin of the name Boxing Day was. The most common explanation seems to be that it comes from a British tradition among wealthy families. On… Continue Reading

I am very pleased to announce that Fool’s Quest, entitled in Italian L’assassino, La Vendetta is now available from Sperling and Kupfer. And because the two covers look so stunning together, I have to share this one for Fool’s Assassin, with its Italian title L’Assassino. Il ritorno Sperling and Kupfer have planned a Blog… Continue Reading

Thanksgiving is behind us! Black Friday has been ignored. I’m already looking forward to December. How many of you have visited https://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/ ? Reddit bills itself as the Front Page of the Internet. But the Fantasy section of Reddit is my front page, closely followed by the r/robinhobb section. And in December, they are doing… Continue Reading

Hold Onto The Light I made a promise and I’m late fulfilling it. Hold on to the Light is a set of posts discussing depression, especially among the arts community. I’d promised I’d give a few thoughts on this . . . several months ago! Before you read this; If you suffer from depression, and… Continue Reading

Well, the candy bowl is by the door, the lights are set, and as soon as it gets a bit darker, I’ll put the spooky light inside my porch gargoyle’s mouth to welcome Trick or Treaters. Hallowe’en is one of my favorite holidays! I love the neighborhood kids in costume, the spookiness of the wind… Continue Reading

Well, I could say that headline says it all! But I’ll add some pictures, as both of these pieces of news make me very happy. We’ve had a tough week here. I don’t know what’s going around, but it knocked Kat for a loop and put her out of commission, and Ru wasn’t much better. … Continue Reading

Well, the predicted remnants of the typhoon brought us a lot of rain, knocked my apples off the tree and took out my power for awhile! Nonetheless, we are all still here, and we are ramping up for Jet City Comic Show in early November in Tacoma, Washington! Last month, we announced a cosplay contest,… Continue Reading